How you know NIH officialdom is not being honest with you
Janet Stemwedel managed to get Michael Lauer, current head of the Office of Extramural Research on the horn to explain his commitment to stamping out sexual harassment in science. This followed from a...
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Michael Balter wrote a piece about sexual harassment accusations against paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond, the curator of human origins at the American Museum of Natural History that was published in...
View ArticleI oppose H8
Sometimes just shaking your head isn't enough. One of the things that I've believed is the very essence of the American Dream is the aspiration to own your own little home, live in a nice neighborhood,...
View ArticleA couple of concerned citizens
First there was this lovely* gentleman from a Trump rally in Florida: A rally which featured this equally delightful** example of RealAmericanism*** Confederate flag flying at Trump rally in FL...
View ArticleResist
Again. Indecent people do not stop because they realize they are wrong or went too far. They only stop when the decent people stop them.
View ArticleAnother day, another report on the postdocalypse
As mentioned in Science, a new report from the US Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have deduced we have a problem with too many PhDs and not enough of the jobs that they want. The...
View ArticleWhen NIH uses affirmative action to fix a bias
We have just learned that in addition to the bias against black PIs when they try to get research funding (Ginther et al., 2011), Asian-American and African-American K99 applicants are also at a...
View ArticleIt's coming from inside the room
Several recent experiences have brought me to ponder a question this week. And in one of the several formulations in my mind it reads: Is it more effective to drive change of large systems from a...
View ArticleUnfair consideration of race or gender
I saw the following comment on twitter the other day and I can’t get this out of my head. 24. A prestigious institution (from #1) told me that I was actually tied in the vote with their top candidate...
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